Mamma mia, here we go again...abba are back!
Pop legends back in the recording studio after 35-year break
Pop sensations Abba have recorded their first new music since the 1980s, declaring “it feels good” to be back in the studio.
The Swedish band said two new songs were the “unexpected consequence” of their virtual reality tour.
In an official statement posted on Instagram yesterday, the band announced the news that will delight millions of fans worldwide.
“The decision to go ahead with the exciting Abba avatar tour project had an unexpected consequence,” the band said in a statement.
“We all four felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio. So we did.
“And it was like time had stood still and that we had only been away on a short holiday – an extremely joyful experience.” They continued: “It resulted in two new songs and one of them, I Still Have Faith In You, will be performed by our digital selves in a TV special produced by NBC and the BBC aimed for broadcasting in December. We may have come of age, but the song is new. And it feels good.
“Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn, Anni-frid.”
Abba’s spokesperson Gorel Hanser described the new songs, saying: “The sound will be familiar, but also modern.” An official release date for the songs is yet to be announced.
Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus previously said the pop sensations would never perform again because it would be “too enormous”.
He said it was “not going to happen”, adding: “I think we don’t feel the motivation.
“The four of us, with live concerts, no. The simple answer is because we don’t want to.
“Why don’t we want to? I guess because it would be such hassle. It would be enormous and it would take such … you cannot imagine the tension and the attention from everyone.
“So it would be like robbing yourself of, perhaps, two or three years out of your life when I could be paddling on my surf ski in the archipelago of Stockholm instead. There’s a choice.”
The Swedish pop group were catapulted to worldwide success after scooping the Eurovision Song Contest with their song Waterloo when the event was held in Brighton in 1974.
They would go on to sell hundreds of millions of copies of their songs worldwide before eventually splitting in 1983.
The Swedish four-piece’s best-knownhitsincludemamma Mia, Money, Money, Money and Dancing Queen.
Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-frid Lyngstad gave their seal of approval to a recent “immersive” show at the Southbank Centre.